Oakland Raiders History

The Raiders started out in 1960 in the AFL which is the American Football league and have won three division titles and a championship. The Oakland Raiders joined the National Football League in 1970 which was part of a NFL-AFL merger. Since the Raiders joined the National Football League the team won three super bowls and twelve division titles as well as appearing in two super bowls. The Oakland Raiders have had thirteen enshrinees in the Football Hall of Fame.

The Raiders first three seasons they struggled on and off the field. Al Davis became the head coach and general manager in 1963. The Raiders became winners as soon as Al David was brought over to the team. During the time Al Davis was with the Raiders from 1963 to 2002 they only had seven losing seasons. Al Davis also started the team slogans like Commitment to Excellence, Pride and Poise as well as Just Win Baby in which Al Davis got registered trademarks for. Al Davis has been with the Raiders team continuosly except for a brief stint as the American Football League commssioner in 1966 as well as being a managing partner of the franchise.

Al Davis moved the Raiders team after a few years of legal battles in 1982 to California from Oakland. When the Raiders moved to Los Angeles they won thier third Super Bowl and two playoff appearences in the 80's. Al Davis moved the Raiders team back to Oakland in 1995. The Raiders head coach Jon Gruden led the Raiders to a 12-4 record on the season in 1990 which was thier first division title. The Raiders team had a three year winning streak since that time for the West Division AFC football seasons. The Raiders head coach Jon Gruden in 2000 sent the Oakland Raiders to the AFC championship Game but fell short in Oakland to the Ravens 16-3. The Oakland Raiders won thier second AFC West Division Ttile in 2001 and won 10-6 but the Oakland Raiders fell short to the New England Patriots in the Divisional Round where it became a controversial game in the snow with the now famous Tuck Rule. The Raiders Head coach in 2002 Bill Callahan faced ex Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden's Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII but lost by a score of 48-21. The Oakland Raiders since their loss to the Buccaneers have lost five consecutive losing seasons. The Raiders in January 2007 named Lane Kiffen a 31 year old as head coach of the Raiders which is the forth since 2002 after the departure of Jon Gruden.

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Four Remarkable Ways To Change Players In Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football is a game that belongs to a billion-dollar industry called fantasy sports wherein players, aptly called team owners, can acquire or draft an entire team of real-life professional football players. Arranged into leagues that mimic real ones, Fantasy Football participants gain score points through statistical capabilities or performances of the real world players which are included in the fantasy rosters of the respective owners.

In essence, the way to win in Fantasy Football is to always have high quality players. Since the performance of the real world players can change in between real world matches, you need to make regular updates or changes to the players in your fantasy roster to keep up with the fantasy games. This makes the changing of players a very important aspect of Fantasy Football.

The basic way for you to change the players in your roster is to add new players. To do this you just go the players' page in your league's website, there you will find the list of players to choose from. Commonly, for each player that you acquire, a corresponding member of your team should be dropped too.

All in all, after acquiring a new player and dropping an old one, your roster will be changed. But there are other ways of changing players in Football Fantasy and here they are.

Activating Bench Players To Active Status

One of the most overlooked ways of changing players in an existing lineup is by simply changing the status of a certain player from bench to active or vice versa. You can access this function online by simply going to your team's webpage. There you will find a menu that permits you to change the status of each of the players on your roster. Always remember to save the changes before you exit the page.

Trading Players

This can be the easiest way of changing the player composition of a Fantasy Football team. For one, this method of changing players on a team is allowed even if the season has already started. And more importantly, this method has very few restrictions; so the process and the agreements that lead to the trading of players is entirely left to the preferences of the two teams that decide to trade.

However, there is one important regulation that all the teams that decide to trade their players should keep in mind and this is ensuring that the trades are not done disproportionately. This happens when one team decides to trade off players that have high quality standings with another team that has had a losing streak. The goal of this tradeoff is obviously to help the lackluster team win more games to the detriment of other participants in Fantasy Football. To address this kind of trading, which is considered cheating; most Fantasy Football leagues disallow trading after about two-thirds of the season has been played.

Allocating For Free Agents

Free agents are players who aren't on the roster of any Fantasy Football team. If your league provides for a waiver system, then a free agent is a player who has been cleared or released from such waiver. Utilizing these free agents is another way to change the players on your roster.

You can acquire free agents on a first-come-first-served basis. You can also opt to bid for any free agent; in this case, all the teams that want to acquire a particular free agent should bid on this free agent and the highest bidder wins the right to acquire the player. There is also a scenario where the worst performing teams during the last season get the first rights to choose any player who is a free agent.

Draft Auction

Fantasy Football gives team owners a certain amount of fantasy cash so that they can bid on professional football players to fill in the spots on their respective rosters. In this system, Fantasy Football team owners take turns in bidding for players.

No matter what method you decide to use in changing your players, always remember that you need to beat a deadline which is about fifteen minutes before the start of the first game during the week; after which, your changes will not be valid. After this deadline, your player lineup is locked for the entire week of matches.

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Independence Bowl History - Past Winners & Facts of the Now Advocare V 100 Independence Bowl

 Since the initial Bowl game in 1976, it produced 33 winning teams and every team has a Special story to share, a story of sportsmanship and bravery.

Meet McNeese State: The very first winner

The very first winner of 1976 Independence Bowl is McNeese State.The team played in the inaugural Independence Bowl game in 1976, and they got victory for a 20-16 over Tulsa. They make two more appearances in 1979 and 1980. In 1997 and 2002, the Cowboys football team has more recently played in two Division I-AA Finals.

McNeese's renowned colors are blue and gold. The men's athletic teams are known as the Cowboys, while the women's athletic teams are the Cowgirls.

The team with most wins

The football history of the University of Mississippi (also known as Ole Miss) is very exciting. It includes the formation of the state's first football team and is 31st on the list of college football's all-time most winning programs.

Ole Miss has participated in 32 bowl games with a good record of 20 wins and 12 losses. Particularly, Ole Miss' win percentage of 0.625 and ranks third all-time among football teams that have played in 25 or more bowl games (a little behind USC and Penn State). Twenty bowl wins record also ranks them 12th all-time.

Mississippi has most wins in Independence Bowl Game with 5 wins. They hold the record for the year 1983, 1986, 1998, 1999, and 2002 accordingly.

2008 Winning Team

The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team is the official team of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. They are currently competing in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the WAC (Western Athletic Conference). At present, the team is led by Derek Dooley. He is the only Athletics Director/Head Coach in NCAA Division sports.

The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team played 4 times in Independence Bowl with 2 losses and 2 wins, they got their first win on December 17, 1977 and they won the latest 2008 Indy Bowl with 17-10 scores over Northern Illinois.

Here is the complete list of Independence Bowl Winners:

Dec. 28, 2008-Louisiana Tech 17, Northern Illinois 10

Dec. 30, 2007-Alabama 30, Colorado 24

Dec. 28, 2006-Oklahoma State 34, Alabama 31

Dec. 30, 2005-Missouri 38, South Carolina 31

Dec. 28, 2004-Iowa State 17, Miami (Ohio) 13

Dec. 31, 2003-Arkansas 27, Missouri 14

Dec. 27, 2002-Mississippi 27, Nebraska 23

Dec. 27, 2001-Alabama 14, Iowa State 13

Dec. 31, 2000-Mississippi State 43, Texas A&M 41, OT

Dec. 31, 1999-Mississippi 27, Oklahoma 25

Dec. 31, 1998-Mississippi 35, Texas Tech 18

Dec. 28, 1997-LSU 27, Notre Dame 9

Dec. 31, 1996-Auburn 32, Army 29

Dec. 29, 1995-LSU 45, Michigan State 26

Dec. 28, 1994-Virginia 20, Texas Christian 10

Dec. 31, 1993-Virginia Tech 45, Indiana 20

Dec. 31, 1992-Wake Forest 39, Oregon 35

Dec. 29, 1991-Georgia 24, Arkansas 15

Dec. 15, 1990-Louisiana Tech 34, Maryland 34

Dec. 16, 1989-Oregon 27, Tulsa 24

Dec. 23, 1988-Southern Miss. 38, Texas-El Paso 18

Dec. 19, 1987-Washington 24, Tulane 12

Dec. 20, 1986-Mississippi 20, Texas Tech 17

Dec. 21, 1985-Minnesota 20, Clemson 13

Dec. 15, 1984-Air Force 23, Virginia Tech 7

Dec. 10, 1983-Air Force 9, Mississippi 3

Dec. 11, 1982-Wisconsin 14, Kansas State 3

Dec. 12, 1981-Texas A&M 33, Oklahoma State 16

Dec. 13, 1980-Southern Miss. 16, McNeese State 14

Dec. 15, 1979-Syracuse 31, McNeese State 7

Dec. 16, 1978-East Carolina 35, Louisiana Tech 13

Dec. 17, 1977-Louisiana Tech 24, Louisville 14

Dec. 13, 1976-McNeese State 20, Tulsa 16

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Football Field Dimensions For Different Levels of Play

In North America, football is a game where the male players are wearing helmets and pads and the field has goal posts on opposite ends. The official or regulation dimensions of a football field may vary depending on the levels of play.

Here are the dimensions of football field in different levels:

National Football League (NFL) or Professional

Outside Dimension:
Length - 120 yards or 360'
Width - 53 and 1/3 yards or 160'

End Zone:
End zones are ten yards deep.

End line:
The end line border is 6'and it marks the end zone's back.

Team Benches:
Team benches are set next to the restraining line which is between the 30 yard markers.

Field Numbers:
NFL field numbers are about 6' in length and 4' in width.

Restraining Line:
All NFL fields have a 6' restraining line next to the side lines. These lines mark the closest area non-players can be to the football field.

Hash Marks:
The hash marks of NFL are the thinnest among all of the levels of football game. It measure about 70' and 9" from the side lines and are about 18' and 6" in width.

Goal Posts:
The goal post of NFL is about 10' in length and 18' and 6" in width.

NCAA or College

Outside Dimension:
Length - 120 yards or 360'
Width - 53 and 1/3 yards or 160'

End Zone:
An NCAA end zone is ten yards deep.

End line:
The end line border is 6'.

Team Benches:
Team benches are also set next to the restraining line which is between the 30 yard markers.

Field Numbers:
The field numbers of NCAA are about 6' in length and 4' in width.

Restraining Line:
All college fields have a 6' restraining line next to the side lines.

Hash Marks:
The hash marks of NCAA measure about 60' from the side lines and are about 40' wide. These are wider than the NFL's hash marks.

Goal Posts:
College or NCAA goal post is about 10' in length and 18' and 6" in width which is the same as NFL.

High School

Outside Dimension:
Length - 120 yards or 360'
Width - 53 and 1/3 yards or 160'

End Zone:
End zones are ten yards deep.

End line:
The end line border is 6' and it marks the end zone's back.

Team Benches:
Team benches are set next to the restraining line which is between the 30 yard markers.

Field Numbers:
The side line field numbers are about 6' in length and 4' in width which marks the ten yard line mark.

Restraining Line:
All high school football fields have a 6' restraining line next to the side lines.

Hash Marks:
The hash marks of high school are the widest among all of the levels of football game. It measure about 53' and 4" wide and the distance is the same from the border of the side lines.

Goal Posts:
The goal posts of high school measure about 10' in length and 23' and 4" in width. These are wider compare to the NFL and college level.

Canadian Football League (CFL) Football

Outside Dimension:
Length - 150 yards or 450'
Width - 65 yards or 195'

End Zone:
End zones are 20 yards deep.

Dead Line:
The end zone's back marks the dead line.

Field Numbers:
The field numbers of CFL are about 6' in length and 4' in width.

Hash Marks:
The hash marks of CFL is designated 24 yards from the sidelines of the playing field, thus, its width is 17 yards or 51'.

Goal Posts:
The goal post of CFL is about 10' in length and 18' and 6" in width.

All fields have the same outside dimensions except for CFL. The hash marks are different for all levels. Also, the goal posts for high school are different from the other levels.

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College Football - Forward Passes and Recruiting

In college sports, players in various sports are tested and trained to be included in college teams. Among these sports is college football. College football is one of the most popular sports in the USA. The goal is to score points by getting the ball into the opposing team's court, or end zone. Over the years, players and coaches have developed various plays for getting the ball to the goal. One of these is known as the forward pass.

E. B. Cochems was a coach at Saint Louis University from 1906 through 1908. He was the first to utilize a proper, legal forward pass in his plays. The forward pass became a central feature of Cochems' offensive scheme, ground-breaking in its time. In that first season his team completed a perfect 11-0 season wherein they outscored their opponents 407-11. The highlight of this football campaign was St. Louis' 31-0 triumph over Iowa. It is reported that there were eight passes which were completed in ten attempts for a total of four touchdowns in the Iowa game. The average flight distance of the passes made was twenty yards, and these plays demonstrated the crucial impact that the forward pass was having on the game.

However, because the dominating teams and the major sports media at the time were all centered and focused on the East. And since St. Louis was geographically distant from both, Cochems' revolutionary offensive strategy was not picked up by any of the major teams. Pass-oriented plays would not be recognized by the Eastern football clubs until the next decade. Other teams in the Midwest did pick it up, however. The quarterback for the College of Emporia in Kansas, Arthur Schabinger, was reported to utilize the forward pass in matches during his stint in 1910.

American professional football, indeed, has its origins in college football. It remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport. As there are many students who are gifted in football eagerly pursuing a college degree, college football recruiting remains a significant activity for students and colleges alike. Some exceptional students have enough talent to attract the attention of scouts and coaches while still in high school. Others, however, need to make extra effort in order to get ahead in the process.

The Internet has proven to be an important and indispensable venue for both athletes and coaches in the college football recruiting process. There are many websites and online forums wherein students and scouts can interact and share information college football and college football recruiting. D1Athletes is an online community wherein athletes and coaches alike can share and exchange information they need. D1Athletes offers them a place to build an online presence and gain important public exposure.

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